Russ Cox's XZ Timeline
Nice writeup from Russ Cox on the (incredibly long) timeline of the XZ backdoor
•JACK IVERS•ELSEWHERE•1 MIN READ
Fascinating—and terrifying. Cox includes a solid list of Further Reading links at the end of his post.
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